Welcome to the Sunday Dish! My kids started school a couple weeks ago–sixth and third grades–and things are going well so far. They like their teachers, are happy to see friends, and are trying new things. Our school has a mask requirement, and funny enough, I hear the…

            Welcome to the Sunday Dish! If you go back in my blog and look at the last time I posted, you’ll see it was May. After that, the crush of summer chaos hit, and this blog unfortunately took a back seat to kids out of school, out of town…

    Welcome friends! Have any of you seen the movie Yes Day? It’s on Netflix, and it’s about a family—mom, dad, three kids—who decide to have a Yes Day where the kids can plan the entire day and the parents have to say yes. This is in reaction to the mom (played by the…

    Welcome friends! As the parent of two school-aged kids, it’s not uncommon to pick them up from school and have one of them be in a “mood” over something or another. This week, my youngest, Sela, came home from school staying it was the “worst day ever.” In fact, she channeled Alexander and…

          Happy Easter, friends! I hope you’ve had a chance to see family or friends this weekend and celebrate all that this day means. We’ve had family in town and it’s been a rambunctious mix of laughter, Easter eggs, kids all over the place, and our dog barking excitedly (and a…

Welcome to the Sunday Dish! I’ve always said (well, as long as I’ve been writing books) that aside from being a good wife and mother and human, writing a book is the hardest thing I’ve ever done. I’ve learned some things, and I think my writing as gotten better, but it still feels like fighting…